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Shimshai
A Persian imperial scribe who with Rehum wrote to Artaxerxes to halt the rebuilding of Jerusalem, as recorded in Ezra 4.
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Shimshai was a imperial who served alongside Rehum the chancellor in the province west of . Together they composed and dispatched a letter to King charging the returned Jewish exiles with sedition and urging the king to order a halt to the rebuilding of . Artaxerxes complied, and the work on the city walls was stopped by force of arms until a later reign. Shimshai's role is recorded in Ezra 4, illustrating the political opposition the restoration community faced from neighboring peoples and officials.
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